[IPython-dev] Website

Some feeedback on the current design:
* Some of the main elements that make the Sphinx design nice are missing:
- The navigation bar between the banner and the rest of the content is
not there.
- In the right panel, the nice colored boxes that divide the content
vertically are also gone.
- The vertical colored regions to the L and R of the content are gone.
These nicely frame the content.
Can we *start* out using the default Sphinx template and then identify
things we want to change/customize for our purposes. My preference
would be the following order:
1. First address the content. This would include getting the
navigation elements to point to our pages etc.
2. Then come up with a custom color scheme. There are a number of
online tools for helping pick color schemes.
3. Then pick a font for "IPython" and create a banner based on that
and the color scheme.
4. Only then start to make minor tweaks to the actual layout as needed.
I recommend this order of things, because the layout should be created
to support/frame the content, not the other way around.
Cheers,
Brian
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Thomas Kluyver <takowl@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've put the built website up so it's easy to evaluate:
>>http://takluyver.github.com/ipython-website/>> Please have a look, and let me know of any broken links, out of date
> information, and so on. I think it's an improvement on the moin wiki, so
> barring any major problems, I'd hope it can go live alongside or before the
> 0.11 release.
>> Thanks,
> Thomas
>> On 6 June 2011 13:03, Thomas Kluyver <takowl@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> The website in my fork of Komal's repository is now (hopefully) up to date
>> and intact.
>>>>https://github.com/takluyver/ipython-website>>>> Cookbook, Developer zone, and Projects using IPython are, for now, links
>> pointing to the moin wiki. News is up to date, version numbers should be
>> correct, and the content on the homepage has been cut down. The favicon is a
>> bland placeholder until someone feels like designing a decent one.
>>>> Please do build it and let me know if you spot any mistakes or omissions.
>>>> Thanks,
>> Thomas
>>
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Brian E. Granger
Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo
bgranger@calpoly.edu and ellisonbg@gmail.com